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Writing Quotes by Mark Twain
- We write frankly and freely, but then we modify before we print.
- Men write many fine and plausible arguments in support of monarchy, but the fact remains that where every man has a voice, brutal laws are…
- Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very"; your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be.
- I have thought many times since that if poets when they get discouraged would blow their brains out, they could write very much better when…
- The test of any good fiction is that you should care something for the characters; the good to succeed, the bad to fail. The trouble…
- I conceive that the right way to write a story for boys is to write so that it will not only interest boys but strongly…
- It is no use to keep private information which you can't show off.
- Experience of life (not of books) is the only capital usable in such a book as you have attempted; one can make no judicious use…
- Well, my book is written-let it go. But if it were only to write over again there wouldn't be so many things left out. They…
- Let us guess that whenever we read a sentence & like it, we unconsciously store it away in our model-chamber; & it goes, with the…
- Anybody can have ideas-the difficulty is to express them without squandering a quire of paper on an idea that ought to be reduced to one…
- I never write "metropolis" for seven cents when I can write "city" and get paid the same.
- I don't speak German well but several experts have assured me that I write it like an angel. Maybe so, maybe so- I don't know.…
- Whatever you have lived, you can write & by hard work & a genuine apprenticeship, you can learn to write well; but what you have…
- The frankest and freest product of the human mind and heart is a love letter; the writer gets his limitless freedom of statement and expression…
- Don't look at the world with your hands in your pockets. To write about it you have to reach out and touch it.
- It is a good thing to write for the amusement of the public, but it is a far higher and nobler thing to write for…
- No one can write perfect English and keep it up through a stretch of ten chapters. It has never been done.
- That cat will write her autograph all over your leg if you let her.
- The writing begins when you’ve finished. Only then do you know what you’re trying to say.
More Writing Quotes
- Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it. — Hannah Arendt
- I grew up in a working-class family, so I guess you could say I write from what I know. — Andrea Arnold
- I started out in life as a poet; I was only writing poetry all through my 20s. It wasn't until I was… — Paul Auster
- I began writing at the age of 5, but there was a dark period between the ages of 8 and 16 when… — Margaret Atwood
- I write from my soul. This is the reason that critics don't hurt me, because it is me. If it was not… — Paulo Coelho
- All through my writing life, I've had this impulse to write autobiographical works. — Paul Auster
- Writing comes more easily if you have something to say. — Sholem Asch
- It is a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art… — Wystan Hugh Auden